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Blissful End · Varials

EXERCISE 25 OF 75
Run I1 · Part I (bars 21-24)
41 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART I
PART P
PART S
PART AH
PART C
PART AT
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesESCAHAT+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blissful End on drums

121 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-7, toms through bars 8-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-15, toms through bars 16-20 and snare through bars 21-22, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 17-19 and 49-51 -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |----------------x---------------|
FT |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-------|
Blissful End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 13, 14, 15, 20, 23 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-16 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-29 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 27-37 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blissful End?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blissful End hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Blissful End?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 13, 14, 15, 20, 23 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED